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Otto Matieson is a Actor Danois born on 27 march 1893 at Copenhagen (Danemark)

Otto Matieson

Otto Matieson
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Nationality Danemark
Birth 27 march 1893 at Copenhagen (Danemark)
Death 19 february 1932 (at 38 years) at Safford (USA)

Otto Matieson (27 March 1893 – 19 February 1932) was a Danish actor of the silent era. He appeared in 45 films between 1920 and 1931. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and died in a car accident in Safford, Arizona.

Biography

Émigré aux États-Unis comme son compatriote Jean Hersholt, il tourne sous sa direction son premier film américain, The Golden Trail (avec Jane Novak et le réalisateur), sorti en 1920. Suivent trente-trois autres films muets américains, le dernier étant Behind Closed Doors de Roy William Neill (avec Virginia Valli et Gaston Glass), sorti en 1929. Entretemps, citons Scaramouche de Rex Ingram (version de 1923, avec Ramón Novarro et Alice Terry), Sackcloth and Scarlet d'Henry King (1925, avec Alice Terry et Dorothy Sebastian), ou encore The Beloved Rogue d'Alan Crosland (1927, avec John Barrymore et Conrad Veidt).

Notons qu'il personnifie Napoléon Bonaparte dans trois films, Vanity Fair d'Hugo Ballin (1923, avec Hobart Bosworth et George Walsh), The Lady of Victories de Roy William Neill (court métrage, 1928, avec Agnes Ayres et George Irving), et enfin Napoleon's Barber de John Ford (court métrage réputé perdu, 1928, avec Frank Reicher et Helen Ware), premier film parlant de l'acteur et du réalisateur.

Otto Matieson contribue à seulement douze autres films parlants, les trois derniers sortis en 1931, dont Beau Ideal d'Herbert Brenon (avec Ralph Forbes et Loretta Young) et Le Faucon maltais de Roy Del Ruth (version avec Bebe Daniels et Ricardo Cortez). En effet, il meurt prématurément début 1932, dans un accident de voiture.

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Filmography of Otto Matieson (30 films)

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Actor

The Last Moment
Directed by Paul Fejos, Yuthlert Sippapak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Lucille La Verne, Georgia Hale, Otto Matieson, Isabelle LaMal
Rating63% 3.185413.185413.185413.185413.18541
A man drowns himself in lake. As he is dying, he recalls the crucial moments of his life and the incidents that led to his final, fatal decision. His unhappy childhood, his tumultuous decision to leave home and stow away on an ocean freighter, his unsuccessful attempts to become an actor, and his two tumultuous attempts at married life are relived. The film ends with the man walking towards the lake and wading deeper and deeper into its waters until he is no longer visible from the shore.
The Maltese Falcon, 1h20
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel, Thelma Todd, Otto Matieson
Roles Dr. Joel Cairo
Rating67% 3.395893.395893.395893.395893.39589
In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) and his partner Miles Archer (Walter Long) are approached by Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels) to follow a man, Floyd Thursby, who allegedly ran off with her younger sister. The two accept the assignment because the money is good, even though they disbelieve her story.
Beau Ideal
Beau Ideal (1931)
, 1h19
Directed by Herbert Brenon
Origin USA
Genres War, Adventure, Romance
Themes French war films
Actors Ralph Forbes, Loretta Young, Lester Vail, Irene Rich, Bernard Siegel, Otto Matieson
Roles Jacob Levine
Rating50% 2.5233052.5233052.5233052.5233052.523305
The last two surviving members of a French Foreign Legion detachment, who know each other as Smith and Brown, are consigned to a grain pit in the desert to die slowly. As they await death the two soldiers eventually realize that they were childhood friends, John Geste (Ralph Forbes) and Otis Madison (Lester Vail), respectively.
Men of the Sky, 1h11
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Musical films, Political films
Actors Bramwell Fletcher, Armand Kaliz, John St. Polis, Edwin Maxwell, Otto Matieson, Frank McHugh
Rating55% 2.760122.760122.760122.760122.76012
In this drama, the love affair between an American pilot named Jack Ames (Jack Whiting) and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert (Irene Delroy) is chronicled. Madeleine leaves her American boyfriend to join her father (John St. Polis), another French agent, as a spy for France at an estate in Germany.
Conspiracy
Conspiracy (1930)
, 1h9
Directed by Christy Cabanne
Origin USA
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Bessie Love, Ned Sparks, Ivan Lebedeff, Rita La Roy, Hugh Trevor, Otto Matieson
Roles James Morton / Steamer Marko
Rating51% 2.5814352.5814352.5814352.5814352.581435
After their father is killed, brother and sister Margaret and Victor Holt devote themselves to bringing down the drug gang responsible for his death. Victor rises to become an attorney in the district attorney's office, and eventually Margaret wangles her way into becoming the secretary for James (Marco) Morton, the head of the drug ring. When Morton discovers Margaret's true identity, he contrives a plot to lure her brother into a trap and kill him.
General Crack, 1h37
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Actors John Barrymore, Philippe De Lacy, Lowell Sherman, Marian Nixon, Armida, Hobart Bosworth
Roles Colonel Gabor
Rating76% 3.827773.827773.827773.827773.82777
The film takes place in the 18th century Austria and revolves around Prince Christian, commonly known as General Crack (John Barrymore). His father had been a respectable member of the nobility but his mother was a gypsy. General Crack, as a soldier of fortune, spent his adult life selling his services to the highest bidder. He espouses the doubtful cause of Leopold II of Austria (Lowell Sherman) after demanding the sister of the emperor in marriage as well as half of gold of the Empire. Before he has finished his work, however, he meets a gypsy dancer (Armida) and weds her. Complications arise when he takes his gypsy wife to the Austrian court and falls desperately in love with the emperor's sister (Marian Nixon). The court sequence was originally in Technicolor and proved to be Barrymore's last appearance in color.
Golden Dawn, 1h23
Directed by Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Walter Woolf King, Noah Beery Sr., Lupino Lane, Marion Byron, Edward Martindel, Nina Quartero
Roles Capt. Eric
Rating46% 2.30532.30532.30532.30532.3053
The story takes place in colonial Africa, where Vivienne Segal (as Dawn), plays the part of a white girl who was kidnapped in infancy and is being brought up by a black native, played by Alice Gentle, as her own. Alice Gentle runs a canteen in the now German colonial settlement. Segal falls in love with Walter Woolf King, a British rubber planter who is now a prisoner of war. Noah Beery, who is the native black leader of the tribes in that region, is also in love with Segal and becomes extremely jealous when he heard of Segal's love for King. King, however, is sent back to Britain by the Germans for attempting to steal Segal, whom they believe is half black. Eventually, the British regain control of the territory and drive out the Germans. King returns to the colony. When the settlement experiences a drought, Beery attempts to incite the natives against Segal, claiming that their native God is angry because Segal has dared to love a white man. King is unable to save Segal because the colonial authorities refuse to act unless they have proof that Segal is one hundred percent white. Eventually Gentle confesses that she is not Segal's real mother and that her real (white) father confirms what she confessed is true and that her mother was white. King quickly brings the British troops just as the natives are about to sacrifice Segal. During the ceremony however, one of the virgin priestesses of the native God, revels that Beery has been lying about Segal. The God is not interested in Segal since she is pure white. Furthermore she reveals that Beery had violated her chastity and claims that their native God was angry because of this sacrilegious act. Beery is sacrificed to the anger of the natives and the drought quickly ends as rain pours down. In the end, Segal and King, happily reunited, sail back to England together.
Napoleon's Barber, 32minutes
Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films
Actors Otto Matieson, Frank Reicher, Helen Ware, Philippe De Lacy, D'Arcy Corrigan, Russ Powell
Roles Napoleon
Rating41% 2.0943352.0943352.0943352.0943352.094335
1815, après la bataille de Waterloo. Un barbier se vante de ce qu'il ferait à Napoléon s'il lui arrivait de le croiser. Mais il ne se doute pas que son client est justement Napoléon...
The Scarlet Lady, 1h12
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lya De Putti, Don Alvarado, Warner Oland, Otto Matieson, Hans Joby
Roles Valet
Rating69% 3.4700953.4700953.4700953.4700953.470095
The Desert Bride, 56minutes
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Betty Compson, Allan Forrest, Edward Martindel, Otto Matieson, Roscoe Karns, Frank Austin
Roles Kassim Ben Ali
Rating61% 3.0784753.0784753.0784753.0784753.078475
The Beloved Rogue, 1h39
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Henry Victor, Slim Summerville, Lawson Butt
Roles Olivier
Rating69% 3.4919853.4919853.4919853.4919853.491985
This script must be run from the command line
Old San Francisco, 1h28
Directed by Alan Crosland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Roles Vasquez's Grandson - in Prologue
Rating63% 3.195633.195633.195633.195633.19563
Chris Buckwell, cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's tenderloin, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez, sends Michael Brandon, an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence, meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores, while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is a half-caste, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from torture and death by the great earthquake of 1906 that kills the villain.
The Road to Romance
Directed by John S. Robertson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Ramón Novarro, Marceline Day, Marc McDermott, Roy D'Arcy, Cesare Gravina, John George
Roles Don Carlos (as Otto Matiesen)
Rating65% 3.278693.278693.278693.278693.27869
Serafina (Marceline Day) is captured by Don Balthasar (Roy D'Arcy)'s pirates on a Caribbean island, when José Armando (Ramon Novarro) arrives from Spain to the rescue.